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Barbara Garay

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Born

Vilnius, Lithuania

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Poetry

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Barbara Garay was born in Vilnius, Lithuania when it was still part of the Soviet Bloc. She immigrated to America when she was six years old and has remained here ever since. Her poetry explores themes of loss, displacement, healing, trauma, pain, love, passion, introspection, and philosophy. Creative expression has always been a way to cope with early childhood trauma. She is passionate about history and philosophy and completed her baccalaureate studies in both at Loyola University Chicago.

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Beneath the Surface: A Book of Poems

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Embracing the struggle

It is our struggles that open our eyes, that take us to a place of overcoming, of learning, of flying. Embrace the struggle and persist through it, and most importantly, learn through it. Only by holding the lessons it teaches can the struggle ever be something beautiful and meaningful to our lives.

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Summary: Radical Candor: Keypoints Summary and Inforgraphic

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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

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Quotes by Barbara Garay (?)

“In time,
everyone fades away,
transfiguring into
echoes that latch
onto our memories
and bleed our hearts dry.”
― Barbara Garay, Beneath the Surface: A Book of Poems

tags: bleeding-heart, bleeding-hearts, echoes, loss-of-love, loss-quotes, memories, temporality

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“We are bound
to memories,
to a past,
even to those full
of all that is aghast,
and yet, we must
conjure up
enough strength
to live beside
our ghosts,
unafraid."

- Barbara Garay, "Beneath the Surface: A book of poems.”
― Barbara Garay, Beneath the Surface: A Book of Poems

tags: empowerment, facing-the-past, ghosts, memories-strength, painful-past, past, unafraid

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Barbara’s Quotes

“In time,
everyone fades away,
transfiguring into
echoes that latch
onto our memories
and bleed our hearts dry.”
― Barbara Garay, Beneath the Surface: A Book of Poems

tags: bleeding-heart, bleeding-hearts, echoes, loss-of-love, loss-quotes, memories, temporality

3 likes